Dominance

Definition: Dominance

Dominance

Noun

1. Superior development of one side of the body.

2. The state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her".

3. The power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests".

Date "dominance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Domain	Definition
Biology & Biotechnology	A)(ecology)in general, the influence of a dominant species; b)(plant ecology)more specifically, the influence that a species exerts over a community, measured e. g. by its mass or its basal area per unit area of ground surface or by the proportion it forms of the total cover, mass, or basal area of the community; c)(genetics)the condition where a gene controls a character that is possessed by one parent of a hybrid and appears in the F1 to the exclusion of the allelic character from the other parent. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	In genetics, the full phenotypic expression of a gene in both heterozygotes and homozygotes. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

For the meaning of the word "dominance" in genetics, please see Dominance relationship Dominance in the context of biology and anthropology is the state of having high social status relative to other individuals, who react submissively to dominant individuals. The opposite of dominance is submissiveness.

"Dominance hierarchies" are found in many animals, including primates such as human beings.

See domination for a discussion of a human sexual behavior involving sexual dominance.

Synonyms: Dominance

Synonyms: ascendance (n), ascendancy (n), ascendence (n), ascendency (n), authorisation (n), authority (n), authorization (n), control (n), laterality (n), say-so (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Influence	Noun: influence; importance; weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy; ascendency; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull; authority; capability; (power); effect; interest.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dominance

English words defined with "dominance": absolutism, Age of Fishes, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency ♦ Black Panthers ♦ control ♦ despotism, Devonian, Devonian period, dextral, dominate, dominion ♦ equipoised ♦ master ♦ rule ♦ sinistral ♦ tyranny. (references)

Specialty definitions using "dominance": air superiority ♦ botwar ♦ Dolman test, dolmans, Dolman's test, Dominance, Cerebral ♦ epistasy ♦ Fibrocystic Disease of Breast ♦ Genetic Complementation Test ♦ Internet Explorer ♦ Landscape indexes ♦ Mendel's first law ♦ wettability, wintel. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Dominance" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (prepotency), French (dominance).

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Alicia's TV Dominance (1992)

Sweet Dominance (1983)

Den of Dominance (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis (reference) Machines As the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Cornell Studies in Comparative History) (reference) The Future of War: Power, Technology and American World Dominance in the 21st Century (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Mail Dominance (reference) Mail Dominance [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	F-22 Air Dominance Fighter (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		In addition to Motorola, Nec has dominance in the paging market. (references)
		Japan's dominance is only a reflection of it's dominance in the car market. (references)
		In the coming years, they are expected to retain their dominance of the Mexican market. (references)
Civil Liberties	Kenya	The Government continued to loosen its control over electronic broadcast media in and around Nairobi, while maintaining its dominance of broadcast services to regional towns and rural areas, where the majority of the country's population live. (references)
Discrimination	Bhutan	In the late 1980's and early 1990's, the Government instituted policies designed to preserve the cultural dominance of the Ngalong ethnic group. (references)
Economic History	Chile	During the period of Radical Party dominance (1932-52), the state increased its role in the economy. (references)
Human Rights	Uganda	Although once considered a useful innovation, the LC courts often are thought to be sources of injustice due to such factors as bribery and male dominance in rural areas. (references)
	Philippines	In most instances, the AFP was accused, but it denied involvement and asserted that the murders were more likely part of the ongoing struggle for dominance among the country's Communist groups. (references)
Minorities	Burundi	The President and the Tutsi-dominated army retained their dominance in decision-making and do not share power equally with Hutu members of the Government. (references)
Political Economy	Peru	Despite extensive changes to reduce executive dominance over the judiciary, problems persisted, including the general inefficiency of the system. (references)
	Burkina Faso	The continued dominance of President Compaore and his ruling party limited citizens' right to change their government, although the 1998 presidential election represented a further step toward democratic government. (references)
	AUSTRALIA	There is no record of forced divestment outside that stemming from investments or mergers that tend to create market dominance, contravene laws on equity participation, or result from unfulfilled contractual obligations. (references)
Political Rights	Solomon Islands	Traditional male dominance has limited the role of women in government. (references)
	Malaysia	The political dominance of the Malay majority means in practice that ethnic Malays hold the most powerful senior leadership positions. (references)
	Madagascar	The elections since the 1998 revision of the Constitution have seen the growing dominance of the President and his political party, AREMA. (references)
Trade	Norway	This is partly because of the market dominance by the very large commercial banks, all of which maintain specialized departments covering the areas generally regarded as typical of merchant banking. (references)
Women	Ghana	Women, especially in rural areas, remain subject to burdensome labor conditions and traditional male dominance. (references)
	Vanuatu	While women have equal rights under the law, they are only slowly emerging from a traditional culture characterized by male dominance, a general reluctance to educate women, and a widespread belief that women should devote themselves primarily to childbearing. (references)
Worker Rights	China	They fear that Tibet's traditional culture and ethnic Tibetan demographic dominance will be overwhelmed by such migration. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Dominance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.91% of the time. "Dominance" is used about 1,095 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.91%	1,094	6,905
Noun (common)	0.09%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	1,095	N/A

Expressions using "dominance": eye dominance ♦ monocular dominance ♦ ocular dominance ♦ Social Dominance. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "dominance": Dominance-Subordination.
	Ending with "dominance": Co-dominance, hexose-dominance.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "dominance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zotërim (assimilation, command, domination, enjoyment, grasp, holding, keeping, lordship, mastership, mastery, occupancy, occupation, ownership, possession, tenure), sundim (dispensation, domination, dominion, grip, gripe, lordship, Raj), mbizotërim (ascendant, domination, preponderance, prevalence). (various references)

Arabic		‏هيمنة (ascendancy, domination, overriding, predominance, predomination, sway, uppercut), ‏سيطرة (ascendant, clutch, command, control, domination, empire, government, gripe, hand, hegemony, hold, mastery, overriding, predominance, predomination, prevalence, reign, restraint, rule, ruling, weight). (various references)

Bulgarian		господство (ascendancy, command, domination, empire, hegemony, lordship, mastership, mastery, rule, supremacy), влияние (action, coloring, colouring, credit, domination, drag, effect, empire, force, grip, gripe, hold, impact, influence, interest, leaven, prestige, pull, punch, purchase, reach, stimulus, sway), надмощие (ascendancy, ascendant, grasp, hegemony, mastery, overweight, predominance, supremacy), могъщество (might, potency, power), доминантност (prepotency). (various references)

Chinese		优势 (Predominance, Preponderance, superiority). (various references)

Czech		převaha (ascendancy, balance, overbalance, overweight, predominance, preponderance, superiority). (various references)

Danish		dominans. (various references)

Dutch		dominantie. (various references)

Farsi		نفوذ (Authority, Force, Hank, Importance, Infiltration, Influence, Influx, Osmosis, Prestige, Prevalence, Seepage), غلبه (Beat, Conquest, Victory), تسلط (Gripe). (various references)

Finnish		dominanssi, vallitsevuus `, vallitsevuus (prevalence). (various references)

French		dominance. (various references)

German		Vorherrschaft (domination, hegemony, predominance, prevalence, supremacy), Dominanz (predominance). (various references)

Greek		υπεροχή (ascendancy, eminence, excellence, forte, odds, overbalance, pre eminence, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prevailingness, primacy, superbness, superiority, supremacy, supremeness, transcendence, transcendency, virtue), επικράτηση (predominance, predominancy, predomination, preponderance, prevalence). (various references)

Hebrew		שליט�" (ascendancy, authority, command, control, disposal, disposition, domination, dominion, mastery, predominance, predomination, proficiency, take over), עליו� ות (advantage, meliority, predominance, preeminence, preponderance, primacy, superiority, supremacy). (various references)

Hungarian		dominancia (prevalence). (various references)

Indonesian		kekuasaan (authorization, clout, domination, hegemony, power, sway). (various references)

Italian		dominanza. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		優性 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ゆうせい (eugenic, living a quiet life in seclusion away from the masses, male characteristics, manliness, planet, postal system, predominance, preponderance, sexual, superior power, superiority, vocal, voiced, wandering star, worrying about world conditions). (various references)

Korean		우성. (various references)

Manx		kioneys (command, domination, hegemony). (various references)

Pig Latin		ominanceday

Portuguese		dominância, dominância, domínio (ascendance, ascendancy, command, domination, dominion, energy, estate, lordship, masterdom, mastership, mastery, ownership, power, property, province, realm, regency, reign, rein, ruling, tenure), predomínio (predominance, pre-eminence, preponderance, prevalence, reign, squirearchy, supremacy). (various references)

Romanian		stãpânire (authority, command, continence, control, demesne, domination, dominion, empire, enjoyment, government, grip, hand, holding, keeping, lordship, masterdom, mastery, ownership, possession, reign, rule, sovereignty, sway), predominare (predominance, prevalence). (various references)

Russian		господство (domination, mastery, predominance, prevalence, raj), преобладание (predominance, predomination, preponderance, prepotency, prevalence). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dominacija (ascendancy, domination), vlast (authority, control, dominion, power, whip hand). (various references)

Spanish		dominación (domination, subjugation). (various references)

Swedish		dominans (ascendancy). (various references)

Thai		การปกครอง (rule). (various references)

Turkish		nüfuz (authority, clout, diffusion, domination, force, hold, influence, interest, moment, penetration, prestige, pull, purchase, wire), hakimiyet (command, control, domination, dominion, imperium, Raj, sovereignty), güç (ability, arduous, arm, baffling, capability, capacity, clout, clutch, clutches, command, control, difficult, energy, force, forcefulness, hard, intensity, iron, might, pep, pith, potency, potential, power, punch, rod, sinew, spirit, stamina, steam, sting, strength, stuffing, sword, tone, tricksy, vigor, vigour, vim, vis, vitality, zing), egemenlik (ascendancy, ascendency, domination, hegemony, imperium, mastery, Raj, reign, rule, sovereignty, supremacy, sway), başat olan şey, üstünlük (advantage, altitude, ascendancy, ascendency, beat, championship, class, distinction, edge, eligibility, excellence, head start, hegemony, lordship, mastery, odds, overweight, pre eminence, precedence, predominance, preponderance, primacy, spirit, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, whip hand). (various references)

Ukrainian		панування (ascendance, ascendancy, domination, grasp, mastery, predominance, predominancy, supremacy). (various references)

Vietnamese		thế trội hơn (preponderance), thế hơn (mastery), ưu thế thế thống trị, địa vị thống trị, địa vị (better, bettor, place, status, tenable). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dominance": dominances. (additional references)
	Words ending with "dominance": overdominance, predominance. (additional references)
	Words containing "dominance": overdominances, predominances. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dominance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diminance, dominans, dominante, ominence. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "dominance" (pronounced dÄ"mununs)
8	d Ä" m u n u n s	predominance.
7	-Ä" m u n u n s	prominence.
6	-m u n u n s	chrominance, eminence, immanence, imminence, luminance, permanence, preeminence.
5	-u n u n s	abstinence, countenance, dissonance, incontinence, maintenance, ordinance, provenance, resonance, sustenance.
4	-n u n s	governance, Ordnance, penance.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, distance, disturbance, divergence, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminescence, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, performance, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, protuberance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-m-n-n-o"
	-1 letter: comedian, daemonic, demoniac, demonian, monecian.
	-2 letters: amidone, codeina, condemn, demonic, encomia, monacid, monadic, nomadic, nonacid.
	-3 letters: acnode, aeonic, aidmen, amnion, ancone, anemic, anodic, anomic, anomie, camion, canine, canned, cannie, canoed, cinema, codeia, codein, coined, comade, conine, conned, daemon, daimen, daimon, deacon, domain, domine, emodin, encina, eonian, iceman, income, maiden, manioc, manned, median, medico.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-m-n-n-o"
	+1 letter: dominances, nonmedical.
	+2 letters: companioned, condimental, nonacademic.
	+3 letters: commendation, condemnation, contaminated, indomethacin, nicotinamide, nonacademics, oleandomycin, predominance, predominancy.
	+4 letters: commandeering, commendations, condemnations, decontaminate, documentarian, documentation, indomethacins, malfunctioned, nicotinamides, nondemocratic, oleandomycins, overdominance, predominances, unaccompanied.
	+5 letters: adenocarcinoma, countermanding, decompensating, decompensation, decontaminated, decontaminates, decontaminator, documentarians, documentations, mendaciousness, noncomplicated, overdominances, predominancies, recommendation, recontaminated, uncontaminated, unromanticized.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 6D 69 6E 61 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.. --- -- .. -. .- -. -.-. .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 006D 0069 006E 0061 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
estrogen dominance	84	hemispheric dominance	4
dominance	68	brain dominance herrmann instrument	4
female dominance	54	dominance hemispheric test	4
dominance submission	47	dominance sex	4
brain dominance	31	female dominance story	3
male dominance	18	dominance female male story submissive	3
column dominance ocular	12	bondage dominance	3
dominance incomplete	11	aggression dominance labrador retriever	3
eye dominance	10	dominance mixed	3
estrogen dominance symptom	9	hand dominance	3
dog dominance	7	brain dominance left right	3
brain dominance right	7	apical dominance	3
sexual dominance	6	cross dominance	3
dominance story submission	6	f 22 air dominance fighter	3
brain dominance test	6	agriculture dominance software stochastic	3
f22 air dominance fighter	5	dominance eyes	3
progesterone dominance	4	dominance software development	3
dominance submissive	4	aggression dominance	3
stochastic dominance	4	dominance story	3
law of dominance	4	complete dominance	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dominance

Definition: Dominance

Dominance

Noun

Specialty Definition: Dominance

Specialty Definition: Dominance

Synonyms: Dominance

Synonyms within Context: Dominance

Influence

Crosswords: Dominance

Modern Usage: Dominance

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Dominance

Books

Music

High Tech

Image Slideshow: Dominance

Photos:Dominance

Computer Images:Dominance

Non-Fiction Usage: Dominance

Usage Frequency: Dominance

Expressions: Dominance

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dominance

Modern Translation: Dominance

Albanian

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Japanese Kanji

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dominance

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Dominance"

Anagrams: Dominance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Dominance

44 6F 6D 69 6E 61 6E 63 65

-.. --- -- .. -. .- -. -.-. .

01000100 01101111 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

&#68 &#111 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

0044 006F 006D 0069 006E 0061 006E 0063 0065

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